UK condemns Israeli minister over inflammatory Lebanon remarks
Key takeaways
- UK foreign secretary slams Israeli minister’s inflammatory remarks amid regional tensions and fragile ceasefire.
- She was responding to a post by Ben-Gvir who wrote on X: “For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.
- “The genocidal death cult headquartered in Tel Aviv is a threat to all of humanity,” Araghchi wrote on X. “It threatens all humans.
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UK foreign secretary slams Israeli minister’s inflammatory remarks amid regional tensions and fragile ceasefire.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir visits the site of a rocket attack on March 1, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Erik Marmor/Getty Images]By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 20 Jun 202620 Jun 2026British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has condemned remarks by Israel’s right-wing National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who posted “all of Lebanon must burn” after four Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah attack.
In a post on X on Friday, Cooper said the comments were “horrendous and abhorrent”.